Personal Knowledge Management:  Organizing Information

Organizing Information
This entails using various tools to draw connections between items of information. In the manual environment, we use file folders, drawers, and other mechanism for organizing information; in more high-tech environments, we use electronic folders, relational databases, and web pages.  Effective organizational principles must underlie effective implementation of information organization regardless of the environment.  (techniques for handling  information overload)

Consideration:
Getting information ready to use for oneself
Efficient use of inquiry time
Preserving information accurately
Making connections that lead to relationships
Getting a sense of the whole, organizing the known
Synthesizing gathered materials/data
Internalize information, making it your own
Create some order out of the information
Ordering principles
Understanding file formats and file structures
Folder creation and organization--directories
Research log
Summary and synopsis
Organized note cards
File management
Bookmark files-organize and annotate
Using Word
Creating personalized Portals to one's information


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